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🗓️ 3 January 2024
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“Just keep going.”—Dave Chappelle
Featuring, in order of appearance:
Kevin Hart, Questlove, Mo Amer, Bill Burr, Pras, Michelle Wolf, and Jon Stewart
Contains music by:
Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, and Stevie Wonder
Recorded in Ohio, Summer 2020
Executive Produced by Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, Dave Chappelle, Noah Gersh, Jamie Schefman, Nick Panama, Kenzi Wilbur, and Miles Hodges
Produced by Noah Gersh and Jamie Schefman for SALT
Production Manager: Liz LeMay
Recording Engineer: Federico Lopez
Recording Engineer: Adrián Bruque for NPND
Assistant Editors: Danny Carissimi and Noah Kowalski
Senior Sound Designer: Russell Topal
Transcription Supervisor: Sam Beasley
Mixer: Jordan Galvan
Podcast Artwork: Rachel Eck
Still Photography: Mathieu Bitton
The Midnight Miracle is a Luminary Original Podcast in partnership with Pilot Boy Productions and SALT.
Special thanks to Paul Adongo, Cipriano Beredo, Elaine Chappelle, Ivy Davy, Rikki Hughes, Kyle Ranson-Walsh, Sina Sadighi, Mark Silverstein, and Carla Sims.
Photography made available courtesy of Pilot Boy Productions, Inc. Copyright © 2021 by Pilot Boy Productions, Inc., all rights reserved.
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0:00.0 | Oh boy I'm very nervous. |
0:03.0 | No pressure. This is not live is it. I imagine whatever I say you could just edit it out. Let's try it a few ways. Lou, are you in the booth? |
0:23.4 | I am. |
0:24.4 | All right, good. You know what, Lou, let's just play around with and see if we can get it right |
0:28.0 | and get this clip package on and then let me go home, all right? |
0:31.6 | All right. All right right count me in. |
0:34.3 | five four three two one |
0:38.3 | wutang I'm just with you little let's do it again. |
0:40.7 | We're gonna do it again. We'll do it again. We'll get it right. |
0:44.0 | Here we go, Dave. |
0:50.0 | Five, four, three, 3, 2. |
0:54.5 | You know, when I was a comedian starting out in Washington, D.C. |
0:58.8 | right here in this city, |
1:00.8 | 1988, I'll never forget this, it was a comedy club owner that banned profanity from his comedy club. |
1:06.0 | He said it defended his audience and this was a cause of major concern for all the comedians in the circuit, |
1:12.0 | and we all called a meeting and we had the |
1:14.2 | owners come and it was the club owners and it was the comedians it was the classic |
1:18.6 | labor dispute the club owners laid out their case that cannot be profanity in these clubs because that offends people and is a comedian who's still a good friend of mine to this day he was right here in Washington DC he stood up and he |
1:35.1 | said he's black I should tell you because it's important to the story he says I use |
1:40.8 | profanity because I live a profane lifestyle. |
1:46.5 | He says I don't have an insect infestation in my house. |
1:51.1 | I have roaches. |
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